Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 53

Then their two roads separated, and though the merchants wished Ivan to go with them, he would not go with them, but went straight home to his wife.

Who acts: two roads, merchants, road · What happens: separate, wish, go, not go · To what, where: Ivan

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two roads, merchants, road), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 separated	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 roads	nmod:poss
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 roads	nummod
4	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 separated	nsubj
5	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 go	cc
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 wished	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 merchants	det
10	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wished	nsubj
11	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 go	advcl
12	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wished	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wished	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wished	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 go	advmod
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 separated	parataxis
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 separated	conj
27	straight	straight	ADV	_	28 home	advmod
28	home	home	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 wife	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 home	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 separated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	separate	participle	merchants's two roads		then		vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	wish	past	the merchants	Ivan			tree rules
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the merchants not said here			with merchants = merchant	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary
4	not go	would	road			with merchants = merchant	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary
5	go	past	merchants's two roads not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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